Michael Kennedy

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Harvard-educated Michael Kennedy is a managing director for Korn/Ferry International in the Atlanta office. He is also chairman of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board. U.S. President Barack Obama appointed Kennedy in 2011, replacing the former Chair Andrew Saul. Kennedy and his colleagues have the task of forming policies to govern the large Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) for U.S. federal employees.

Before Korn/Ferry Kennedy owned a venture capital consulting firm, worked in corporate finance at GE Capital Corporation and had a stint at J.P. Morgan’s Investment Management Group in New York.